Ten Favorite Novels

Great selections by everyone on this thread --- obviously the forum is blessed with participants who are exceptionally knowledgeable. I see that the selections have been broadened to include poems and literature that are not novels. And, to me, that's a good idea.

Here are books I would include among my top ten:


Aesop Fables

Confucius Analects

Khayyam Rubiyat

Cervantes Don Quixote

Erasmus In Praise of Folly

Hugo Les Miserables

Melville Moby Dick

Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment

Santayana The Last Puritan

Orwell 1984

Milan Kundera - The Joke

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

Oscar Wilde - The picture of Dorian Gray

Herman Hesse - Demian

Albert Camus - The stranger

Bernhard Schlink - The Reader

G. G. Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude

Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita

Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Le Petit Prince

Ten is too little....Here's my list;

Mysteries and Victoria by Knut Hamsun
The Lake and A Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller
The Razor's Edge and Cakes and Ale by Somerset Maugham
Death on the Installment Plan and Journey to the End of the Night by Celine
On The Road by Jack Kerouac
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
The Web and the Rock by Thomas Wolfe
L'Assomir by Emile Zola
The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
No Longer Human and The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
The Abortion;A Historical Romance by Richard Brautigan
The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki
My Autobiography by Maxim Gorky
Wait Until Spring Bandini by John Fante
Winesburg Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Take a Girl Like You by Kingsley Amis
Independent People by Halldor Laxness
Howards End by EM Forster
The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren

1984-George Orwell
Ender's Gamie-Orson Scott Card
Crime and Punishment-Dostoyevski
Don Quixote-Cervantes
Brave New World-Aldous Huxley
Dracula-Bram Stoker
The Count of Monte Cristo- I can't remember
Farenheit 451-Ray Bradbury
The Chrysalids-John Wyndham
If-Rudyard Kipling (actually a poem but with enough depth to be a novel, also one of my favourite pieces of literature ever)

There are so many great novels, but these are probably my favorite...

The Great Gatsby
Ulysses
The Catcher in the Rye
Gravity's Rainbow
Brave New World
War and Peace
Whisper of Death
Emma
The Sound and the Fury
The Odyssey

The Devil to Pay in the Backlands, Guimarães Rosa
The Toilers of the Sea, Victor Hugo
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, Machado de Assis
Animal Farm, George Orwell
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Edgar Allan Poe's Tales
Sherlock Holmen's canon, Conan Doyle
Ben Hur, Lew Wallace
The Death of Ivan Ilych, Leon Tolstoy

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Originally Posted by ajoe

It's actually a quintet. In 1985, ajoe was born.

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LMAOROFL

God that hit the spot for some reason

1. Melville's MOBY DICK
2. Faulkner's GO DOWN MOSES
3. Joyce's ULYSSES
4. Dostoevsky's THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
5. Traven's THE DEATH SHIP
6. Dostoevsky's THE IDIOT
7. Wittgenstein's TRACTATUS LOGICO PHILOSOPHICUS
8. Nietzche's ANTI-CHRIST
9. Plato's THE REPUBLIC
10. McCarthy's BLOOD MERIDIAN

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Originally Posted by WaffenOates

7. Wittgenstein's TRACTATUS LOGICO PHILOSOPHICUS

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Have you read the Philosophical Investigations? I'd expect one would rather enjoy it than the Tractatus. However the Tractatus is very interesting as well and also has some great quotes :p

Also, I haven't read the Anti-Christ by Nietzsche, what form did he give to this book?

1. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
2. Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
3. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
4. Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
5. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
6. Arabian Nights
7. Stories and Drama by Anton Chekhov
8. Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
9. The Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
10. A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov

In no particular order~

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Candide by Voltaire
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1984 by George Orwell
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

I was wondering which novel occured the most in the this thread? Doesn't matter which order just the fact it's in the posters top ten list. I saw Don Quixote few times in few pages but I am too lazy to look for the entire thread so if anyone knows please tell I am really interested to see what's the forum visitors have in common.

My top ten in disorder:

The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man-James Joyce
1984-George Orwell
Jane Eyre-Charlote Brontë
Pere Goriot-Balzac
Novels-Tolstoy
Don Quixote-Servantes
The Picture of Dorian Gray-Oscar Wilde
Blindness-Jose Saramago
Brave New World-Aldous Huxely
Arabian Nights

This is what I can recall right now,I might find something else later.

My Personal Top Ten

1. David Copperfield-Charles Dickens
2. Swann's Way- Marcel Proust
3. Mrs. Dalloway- Virginia Woolf
4. The Secret Agent- Joseph Conrad
5. Antony and Cleopatra- Shakespeare
6. To the Lighthouse- Virginia Woolf (again)
7. Bleak House- Charles Dickens (again)
8. Moby Dick- Herman Melville
9. Lolita - Nabokov
10. The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot

Just rethinking,here is another Top Ten.The thing is,I cannot make myself prefere some books upon others.

Novels-Stephan Zweig
Joseph Fouche-Stephan Zweig
Great Expectations-Charles Dickens
Jacob's Room-Virginia Woolf
Year '93-Victor Hugo
The House of Mirth-Edith Wharton
Dubliners-James Joyce
Les Sorcieres de Salem-Arthur Miller(actually a play and I haven't read it in English,so I don't know the original title)
Huckelberry Fin-Mark Twain